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2025 - 2026 LEGISLATURE
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2025 ASSEMBLY BILL 1035
February 11, 2026 - Introduced by Representatives
Kaufert
,
Armstrong
,
Dittrich
and
Stubbs
, cosponsored by Senator
James
. Referred to Committee on Mental Health and Substance Abuse Prevention.
AB1035,1,2
1
An Act
relating to:
expanding the Wisconsin deflection initiative and making
2
an appropriation.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
This bill requires the Department of Justice to expand the Wisconsin deflection initiative during the 2025-27 fiscal biennium. The Wisconsin deflection initiative is a program that focuses on identifying, treating, and supporting individuals affected by substance use in a way that limits criminal justice system exposure.
Under the bill, DOJ must expand the Wisconsin deflection initiative by providing grants to current deflection initiative sites for any of the following purposes: to hire additional employees to provide deflection care coordination, to contract with outside vendors for consultations and program evaluations, to acquire deflection care technology, or to contract with an outside vendor to provide deflection care coordination technology.
The bill provides $507,100 in each fiscal year of the 2025-27 biennium and increases the authorized FTE employees for DOJ by 1.0 GPR position for the purpose of expanding the Wisconsin deflection initiative.
For further information see the state and local fiscal estimate, which will be printed as an appendix to this bill.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
AB1035,1
1
Section
1
. Nonstatutory provisions.
AB1035,2,7
2
(
1
)
Wisconsin deflection initiative expansion.
During the 2025-27 fiscal
3
biennium, the department of justice shall implement a pilot program to expand the
4
Wisconsin deflection initiative by providing grants to Wisconsin deflection
5
initiative sites that are active participants in the Wisconsin deflection initiative on
6
the effective date of this subsection. Grants may be awarded under this subsection
7
for any of the following purposes:
AB1035,2,8
8
(
a
)
To hire additional employees to provide deflection care coordination.
AB1035,2,10
9
(
b
)
To contract with outside vendors for consultations and program
10
evaluations.
AB1035,2,11
11
(
c
)
To acquire deflection care coordination technology.
AB1035,2,14
12
(
d
)
1
.
To contract with an outside vendor to acquire deflection care
13
coordination technology. To obtain a contract under this paragraph, a vendor shall
14
meet all of the following qualifications:
AB1035,2,16
15
a
. The vendor shall have a fully developed system for deflection care
16
coordination at the time the contract is executed.
AB1035,2,19
17
b
. The vendor shall have a minimum of 5 years of experience supporting
18
multisite deflection initiatives that are comparable to the Wisconsin deflection
19
initiative.
AB1035,3,2
20
c
. The vendor shall be able to provide a deflection care coordination system
21
that meets all legal requirements and standards, including privacy protections, the
22
federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, and
42 CFR part 2
,
1
security requirements, and compliance with other applicable laws and best
2
practices.
AB1035,3,8
3
2
. A Wisconsin deflection initiative site shall give preference under subd.
1
. to
4
a vendor that is recommended by a current Wisconsin deflection initiative site, that
5
has functionality and flexibility with application programming interfaces, and
6
whose technology can be customized to reflect the specific resources available to the
7
site, including the ability to securely collect referrals from supporting organizations
8
or individuals.
AB1035,3,13
9
(
2
)
Wisconsin deflection initiative; onetime funding.
Notwithstanding
10
s. 16.42 (1) (e), in submitting information under s. 16.42 for the 2027-29 biennial
11
budget bill, the department of justice shall submit information concerning the
12
appropriation under s. 20.455 (1) (a) as though the increase in the dollar amount of
13
that appropriation by
Section
2
(
1
) and (
2
) of this act did not take effect.
AB1035,2
14
Section
2
. Fiscal changes.
AB1035,3,21
15
(
1
)
Wisconsin deflection initiative.
In the schedule under s. 20.005 (3) for
16
the appropriation to the department of justice under s. 20.455 (1) (a), the dollar
17
amount for fiscal year 2025-26 is increased by $400,000 to expand the Wisconsin
18
deflection initiative as provided in
Section
1
(
1
) of this act. In the schedule under
19
s. 20.005 (3) for the appropriation to the department of justice under s. 20.455 (1)
20
(a), the dollar amount for fiscal year 2026-27 is increased by $400,000 to expand the
21
Wisconsin deflection initiative as provided in
Section
1
(
1
) of this act.
AB1035,4,5
22
(
2
)
Wisconsin deflection initiative position authority.
In the schedule
23
under s. 20.005 (3) for the appropriation to the department of justice under s.
24
20.455 (1) (a), the dollar amount for fiscal year 2025-26 is increased by $107,100 to
1
increase the authorized FTE positions for the department by 1.0 GPR position to
2
expand the Wisconsin deflection initiative as provided in
Section
1
(
1
) of this act.
3
In the schedule under s. 20.005 (3) for the appropriation to the department of
4
justice under s. 20.455 (1) (a), the dollar amount for fiscal year 2026-27 is increased
5
by $107,100 to provide funding for the position authorized under this subsection.
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